The political ideology of Islam, I and others have found, is quite amenable to all tenets of fascism, that 20th Century political phenomenon. Private property is not abolished, as in communism, but the state exercises nearly complete control on how it is used, supposedly for the “common good.” Individual rights are always at the discretion of the rulers, and in Iran’s case (the Islamic Republic), all rights and policies are decided by the one Mullah at the top (think Fuhrer). The president has some power, but the Mullahs retain complete control (Nazis in another language). The enforcer gangs, dressed differently from military units, are the real terror forces, very similar to Hitler’s Brownshirts and the SS.
But, perhaps the reason why the Islamic power regimes of the Middle East are so fascist in their system, owes a great deal to the fact that they were intimately allied with Hitler during WWII and shared a bedrock hatred of the Jews. The Mufti of Jerusalem, alHusseini, according to Rabbi David G. Dalin’s book “The Myth of Hitler’s Pope,” this Islamic Mufti was invited by the Nazi leadership in Berlin to move his base of operations on behalf of the Axis to Berlin. In November of 1941, al-Husseini had his first meeting with Adolph Hitler, wherein the Mufti explained to the Fuhrer his devotion to the Nazi cause, asked Hitler to give his approval “for the elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine,” and convinced Hitler of his “total dedication to the Nazi goal of exterminating the Jews, and offered to raise an Arab legion to carry out that task in the Middle East.” (quotes from Dalin; p. 135) Another researcher has chronicled the formation of Hitler’s Final Solution, and has much evidence to conclude that it was no accident that details of the Final Solution emerged in Berlin shortly after the Mufti’s arrival there, and that the Mufti was a close confidant Eichmann, and the man who “constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures.” (Dali; p. 136)
Kenneth R. Timmerman, another researcher, quoted by Dalin, concludes: “The new Muslim-Nazi alliance that the Mufti forged with Hitler marks the beginning of a Nazi-style Antisemitism as a mass movement in the Arab world.” And Dalin adds “that under the initial leadership of the mufti and his protege, the young YASSER ARAFAT, continues to this day. At the War’s conclusion, al-Husseini barely escaped prosecution for war crimes by being smuggled out of Germany to Egypt, where he met Yasser Arafat shortly thereafter. Al-Husseini took Arafat under his wing and mentored him in Nazi tactics, underscoring the need to complete the Final Solution for the Middle East. Arafat gave tribute to his mentor, Hitler’s Mufti, calling him the “central figure of the pantheon of the PLO in both spirit and practice.” (Dalin; p. 140)
The former leader of the PLO was actually trained and mentored by the genuine 20th Century Nazis. And he wasn’t the only one. Even Anwar Sadat, the more moderate-seeming president of Egypt (who mellowed in later years much to the disdain of the true IslamoFascists) was a loyal spy for Germany during WWII in British-occupied Egypt. But Sadat had strong ties to the Third Reich, which were quite well-known at the time. In 1972, at a celebration for Mohamed’s birth, Sadat declared: “We shall not only liberate the Arab lands in Jerusalem and break Israel’s pride of victory, but we will return the Jews to the state in which the Koran described them before: to be persecuted, suppressed and miserable.
At the War’s conclusion, many top Nazis were also smuggled out of Germany and took up residence in the Middle-East for the express purpose of training the new vanguard against worldwide Jewry.
There is so much evidence linking the current tactics and beliefs of Islamic terrorism to the Nazis of the 20th Century, that it is undeniable they keep Hitler’s own flame burning these many years after his ignominious death. So, isn’t it right that we should refer to them as the IslamoFascists? I believe it is. After all, the Islamists formed a tight alliance with the first Nazis under Hitler, and it is an alliance that exists to this day, across time and space.
The Nazis represent a Beast that refuses to die. A Beast, which was near-fatally wounded at the end of WWII, but which has arisen once again to snare 21st Century peoples. The big question in my mind now is which man will arise to take Hitler’s own place? From whence will he come? From the East? Or from the West?
That is the question that ought to burn a hole in every man and woman in these days — in my opinion.